1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (635+ words) A new AI-powered reconstruction method has transformed radio observations into a continuous video, revealing unexpected motion inside a distant black hole jet. For decades, astronomers have relied on Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to study the enormous jets launched by…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (775+ words) New gravitational wave observatories could detect ancient black hole mergers and reveal how the first stars shaped the early universe. New generations of gravitational wave detectors could soon detect the hidden remnants of the universe’s first stars, according to a…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (231+ words) Astronomers have reconstructed a massive protostellar encounter that could reveal an unexpected route to building close binary stars. Astronomers have reconstructed the turbulent assembly of two massive young stars, finding evidence that they may have formed separately before a close…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (762+ words) Scientists have uncovered a new approach to reading black hole signals, but the strange possibility behind the pattern remains one of the biggest mysteries. Black holes may hide structures that cannot be seen directly but could leave traces in gravitational…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (654+ words) Astronomers have identified the violent merger that launched a supermassive black hole out of its galaxy and into intergalactic space. In 2022, astronomers detected an unusual structure extending from a distant galaxy located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The feature appeared…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (463+ words) A weird spacetime crystal has scientists looking at gravity in a whole new way, and the results are stranger than expected. Unlike the massive black holes found at the centers of galaxies or created by collapsing stars, these theoretical objects…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (675+ words) A supermassive black hole in the Perseus Cluster revealed a rare link between X-ray activity and delayed radio jets. A supermassive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275 erupted in X-rays before triggering a radio flare nearly 300 days later, revealing a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (720+ words) A new discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing a hidden side of the young Universe, and scientists are taking notice. The James Webb Space Telescope recently observed four unusual cosmic objects. The famous telescope may reveal how…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (710+ words) James Webb observations may have revealed the distant galaxy behind a mysterious gamma-ray burst that puzzled astronomers for nearly 20 years. A nearly 20-year-old mystery surrounding the unusual gamma-ray burst GRB 061201 may have been resolved after observations from the James Webb…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (312+ words) Astronomers may have identified the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy made almost entirely of gas with no stars. Team leader Ignacio Trujillo of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain described the significance of the observation to Space....